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Willem Gerard Hofker
(1902 - 1981)
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Lived/Active: Netherlands
Known for: portrait, figure, genre, land-and townscape painting
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Willem Hofker was born in the Hague and first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts there and later at the National Academy in Amsterdam. He was also taught by Willem Witsen and Issac Israel who were friends of his father, an amateur artist and writer.
Hofker won 2nd prize at the Prix de Rome in 1924 and settled in Amsterdam with his wife Maria who was also a painter. There they supported themselves mainly through executing portraits.
After arriving in Indonesia in 1938 he and Maria (showing 500 of 1225 characters). |
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